To feed, it casts out a slimey net from its muddy burrow where it hosts a variety of commensal critters

Vultures

Did you know that Vultures dine on the rotting carcasses of diseased animals, thus preventing the spread of life-threatening diseases such as rabies and anthrax? Can you imagine how smelly and diseased ridden our world would be without vultures?

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